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Prof. Dr. Katrin Weller is a leading scholar in computational social science and research data management. She holds the Professorship for Research Data Management in the Social Sciences at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (since 2024) and serves as Scientific Director of the Data Services for the Social Sciences department at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. Her career includes co-leading the Research Data and Methods team at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) (2021-2023) and heading GESIS's Digital Society Observatory team (2015-2024).
- Academic Appointments
- Professor for Research Data Management in Social Sciences, HHU Düsseldorf (2024-present)
- Scientific Director, Data Services for Social Sciences, GESIS (2024-present)
- Research Themes
- Digital behavioral data quality and reusability
- Ethical challenges in social media research
- Altmetrics and scholarly communication
- Platform data preservation and archiving
- Key Collaborations
- Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS)
- Library of Congress (Digital Studies Fellow)
- International conferences (AoIR, WebSci, ICWSM)
Scientific Contributions span 15+ years of publications addressing social media's methodological, ethical, and archival dimensions. Notable works include:
- Frameworks for assessing data quality in digital social research
- Ethical implications of decentralized platform data collection (e.g., Mastodon)
- Preservation strategies for Twitter and Wikipedia references
- Analysis of affective drivers in political information seeking
Her teaching includes seminars on social media research fundamentals at Heinrich Heine University. As an organizer, she has led European symposia on computational social science challenges and co-founded the #FAIL workshop series to study social media research failures.